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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY * Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Health Care: After a presidential "town hall" with few, if any, critics present to question false claims, the top White House political strategist provided an odd follow-up: an e-mail to everyone promising everything.
There may never have been anything quite like David Axelrod's Thursday mass e-mailing.
"Dear Friend," the senior adviser to the president began a correspondence that multitudes of Americans apparently received unsolicited. Three sentences later, Axelrod complained about "the viral e-mails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies and distortions." His idea for combating such outrages: "Let's start a chain e-mail of our own."
Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett couldn't get an answer from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about how and why Americans with no connection to the Obama campaign, and who were unregistered with the White House Web site, were getting e-mails from the president's top political operative.
The unwelcome "Ax-Mail" is sure to fan fears that the White House has been collecting citizens' e-mail addresses en masse. But there should be a bigger concern for proponents of ObamaCare: people actually reading Axelrod's bizarre missive.
The Chicago political consultant must have done well lately playing the number 8 on the roulette wheel. His e-mail consists of "8 ways" ObamaCare helps everybody, "8 common myths" and "8 reasons" to enact it into law immediately.
As the most famous ballplayer to wear the number 8, Yogi Berra, once supposedly said: "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
Those who read Axelrod's e-mail will be told of private insurers that would have to provide coverage regardless of medical history and that would be forbidden "from placing annual or lifetime caps on the coverage you receive." They'll also learn of "yearly caps on how much they can charge for out-of-pocket expenses" and a requirement that insurers "fully cover, without charge, regular checkups and tests."
The president's adviser also says "children would continue to be eligible for family coverage through the age of 26." Bulletin: 26-year-olds are grown-ups. They can legally vote, drink, drive; some even hold full-time jobs and live in their own apartment.
With all these new requirements, we are to believe that ObamaCare will not drive the private health insurance industry into the ground, as independent, respected health care analysts like the Lewin Group have warned.
Curiously, the Axelrod e-mail, at more than 1,500 words, refrains from mentioning the "public option" the president has been touting so passionately in recent weeks. That government-run insurance scheme, with its artificially low premiums, is what could suck tens of millions of Americans away from their employer-provided private plans and thus destroy the companies that provide them.
Costs for this health care revolution are effortlessly paid for, according to Axelrod, "by cutting waste, fraud and abuse," "ending big subsidies to insurance companies" and "streamlining paperwork."
The director of the independent Congressional Budget Office was outrageously dragged to the Oval Office carpet for contradicting that dubious notion. The CBO dared to state last month that what congressional Democrats were cooking up would cost $1.1 trillion over a decade, adding $239 billion to the budget deficit.
The nonpartisan Health Systems Innovations consulting firm, using simulation models based on more recent health-plan data than what are available to the CBO, estimates the costs at well over $2 trillion.
In tallying those who fall through the health insurance cracks, Axelrod is not content with the "46 million uninsured" figure that's been bandied about (and of whom the president promises to get "probably only about 37-38 million" covered). Axelrod touts an outlandishly bigger number — "an estimated 87 million people, or one in every three Americans under the age of 65."
An even better illustration of how bad the panic is spreading in the West Wing can be found in Axelrod's "myth" number 8: "No, government will not do anything with your bank account."
When a president's aide feels forced to convince a skeptical populace that the White House plans don't include Big Brother's master computer electronically pilfering the contents of your nest egg, you know how uphill the battle has become.
The only good news for the White House may be all those Ax-Mail recipients who undoubtedly have set their computers to block Axelrod's future communications.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=335143109362016
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY * Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Health Care: After a presidential "town hall" with few, if any, critics present to question false claims, the top White House political strategist provided an odd follow-up: an e-mail to everyone promising everything.
There may never have been anything quite like David Axelrod's Thursday mass e-mailing.
"Dear Friend," the senior adviser to the president began a correspondence that multitudes of Americans apparently received unsolicited. Three sentences later, Axelrod complained about "the viral e-mails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies and distortions." His idea for combating such outrages: "Let's start a chain e-mail of our own."
Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett couldn't get an answer from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about how and why Americans with no connection to the Obama campaign, and who were unregistered with the White House Web site, were getting e-mails from the president's top political operative.
The unwelcome "Ax-Mail" is sure to fan fears that the White House has been collecting citizens' e-mail addresses en masse. But there should be a bigger concern for proponents of ObamaCare: people actually reading Axelrod's bizarre missive.
The Chicago political consultant must have done well lately playing the number 8 on the roulette wheel. His e-mail consists of "8 ways" ObamaCare helps everybody, "8 common myths" and "8 reasons" to enact it into law immediately.
As the most famous ballplayer to wear the number 8, Yogi Berra, once supposedly said: "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
Those who read Axelrod's e-mail will be told of private insurers that would have to provide coverage regardless of medical history and that would be forbidden "from placing annual or lifetime caps on the coverage you receive." They'll also learn of "yearly caps on how much they can charge for out-of-pocket expenses" and a requirement that insurers "fully cover, without charge, regular checkups and tests."
The president's adviser also says "children would continue to be eligible for family coverage through the age of 26." Bulletin: 26-year-olds are grown-ups. They can legally vote, drink, drive; some even hold full-time jobs and live in their own apartment.
With all these new requirements, we are to believe that ObamaCare will not drive the private health insurance industry into the ground, as independent, respected health care analysts like the Lewin Group have warned.
Curiously, the Axelrod e-mail, at more than 1,500 words, refrains from mentioning the "public option" the president has been touting so passionately in recent weeks. That government-run insurance scheme, with its artificially low premiums, is what could suck tens of millions of Americans away from their employer-provided private plans and thus destroy the companies that provide them.
Costs for this health care revolution are effortlessly paid for, according to Axelrod, "by cutting waste, fraud and abuse," "ending big subsidies to insurance companies" and "streamlining paperwork."
The director of the independent Congressional Budget Office was outrageously dragged to the Oval Office carpet for contradicting that dubious notion. The CBO dared to state last month that what congressional Democrats were cooking up would cost $1.1 trillion over a decade, adding $239 billion to the budget deficit.
The nonpartisan Health Systems Innovations consulting firm, using simulation models based on more recent health-plan data than what are available to the CBO, estimates the costs at well over $2 trillion.
In tallying those who fall through the health insurance cracks, Axelrod is not content with the "46 million uninsured" figure that's been bandied about (and of whom the president promises to get "probably only about 37-38 million" covered). Axelrod touts an outlandishly bigger number — "an estimated 87 million people, or one in every three Americans under the age of 65."
An even better illustration of how bad the panic is spreading in the West Wing can be found in Axelrod's "myth" number 8: "No, government will not do anything with your bank account."
When a president's aide feels forced to convince a skeptical populace that the White House plans don't include Big Brother's master computer electronically pilfering the contents of your nest egg, you know how uphill the battle has become.
The only good news for the White House may be all those Ax-Mail recipients who undoubtedly have set their computers to block Axelrod's future communications.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=335143109362016
